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Kelsen believed that although law is separate from morality, it is endowed with “normativity”, meaning we ought to obey it. While laws are positive “is” statements (e.g. the fine for…
Kelsen believed that although law is separate from morality, it is endowed with “normativity”, meaning we ought to obey it. While laws are positive “is” statements (e.g. the fine for…
Weber began his career as a lawyer, and is regarded as one of the founders of sociology and sociology of law. Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School professor and…
Public international law can be formed by international organisations, such as the United Nations , the International Labour Organisation, the World Trade Organisation , or the International Monetary Fund. Public…
Yet Ancient Greek law contained major constitutional innovations in the development of democracy. The most prominent economic analyst of law is 1991 Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase, whose first major…
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John Austin’s utilitarian answer was that law is “commands, backed by threat of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience”. Natural lawyers on the other…
Civil law is the legal system used in most countries around the world today. In civil law the sources recognised as authoritative are, primarily, legislation—especially codifications in constitutions or statutes…
The UK Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the US Uniform Commercial Code are examples of codified common law commercial principles. Cynicism over “officialdom” is still common, and the workings…
As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury. One of the official rules of cricket as…
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